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✡️ DevRel @Couchbase for TIMEA 🇹🇷🇮🇱🌍 Consulting at @YallaDevRel 📈 Creator of @tech_torah 📚 Board Member, @rubycentralorg 💎

Tel Aviv 🇮🇱 and Miami 🇺🇸
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Ben Greenberg
8 years
If you think every anti-Israel protest is anti-Semitic but you're not upset about #SteveBannon , your priorities need some tuning...
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1 year
Officially a graduate of the @Polkadot Blockchain Academy! 🎓
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Ben Greenberg
10 months
Why did I turn my lights in my office green? It’s because I’m happy to share that I’ve joined @fuel_network as the Head of DevRel! Thrilled to be working with such an incredible team building out an incredible developer experience with the fastest modular execution layer and a
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
You don't want to miss this upcoming Twitter space a week from tomorrow if you're interested in getting into #DevRel as a new career.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
I've made it to Nairobi for #PyConKE2022 ! 🇰🇪 Looking forward to meeting the local dev community 🙌 I'll be delivering two talks, and handing out lots of @newrelic swag! Come and say hi!
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
If you think Ruby is not a big market for hiring, then you weren't in the room at #RubyConf2021 this week with hundreds and hundreds of attendees being aggressively recruited by so many companies, both established and new.
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
76 students. 8 academic modules. 5 weeks. 4 major projects. We've reached the end of @Polkadot Blockchain Academy '23 in Buenos Aires. It was exhausting and exhilarating, each week packed with a semester worth of knowledge. Heading home mind expanded. 🧠
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
I'd love to nominate people who love teaching others to code and sharing their passion for education for a @github Stars award! Can you share suggestions of people in the comments?
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
The talks were 🔥 and the community was 💯 welcoming, thanks to the #PyConKE2022 organizers, volunteers, attendees, and fellow speakers for an incredible time! You've given this Rubyist a great first PyCon experience! 🐍
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Today, I officially join @newrelic 🪐 as a Lead #DevRel Engineer! 🎉 I've been a fan of theirs for a long time, and I am thrilled to be joining the team! Serendipitously, I got to hang out with some of the folks at RubyConf last week, which was an awesome coincidence 😊
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Ben Greenberg
2 months
Quick update: I'm no longer with Fuel. I wish them success and loved working with my DevRel team. Check out their Blockspäti event tonight in Berlin—glad I helped make that happen. Stepping back from Web3 professionally. Let's discuss some reflections after about 2 years in
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
My colleague Pauline kicking off the @Polkadot Blockchain Academy in partnership with the University of Buenos Aires. There were over 700 applicants for the approx 70 slots! 👏
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2 years
Beautiful Nairobi 🇰🇪
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Ben Greenberg
6 years
I present a new golden rule for #programmers to address the most insidious of programming issues: The Headphone Interruption™️ #coding #productivity #office
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Ben Greenberg
7 months
What is a blockchain? What are consensus mechanisms? What about tokens? Dive into the 101 of blockchain and build your first @fuel_network dApp with me and @_phzn in this episode of "Learning Things I Love to Hate" from @directus
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Ben Greenberg
2 months
New job alert! 🚨 I’ve joined @couchbase as the new Developer Advocate for TIMEA 🇹🇷🇮🇱🌍. Thrilled to be part of an amazing DevRel team and excited to reconnect with developer communities across the region soon as I move back to 🇮🇱 in a few weeks! 🌍✨
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Ben Greenberg
8 years
I was a @BernieSanders supporter, I'm still a progressive but now #ImWithHerAndHim #DemsInPhilly #DNCinPHL
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
It's conference season again, so you may be preparing a talk with code snippets. Please remember -- MAKE THE FONT SIZE UNCOMFORTABLY LARGE FOR YOU Your audience will appreciate being able to read it. 👀 And... High contrast between background & text colors ◼️◻️🟨
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Ben Greenberg
5 months
For those of you new to DevRel since the pandemic, a reminder may be in order -- The DevRel practitioners you see flying on planes, taking pictures in fun locations and drinking artisanal coffee are the tip of the iceberg of the profession. There is a mountain of people
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
rails new --css tailwind Sometimes, it's actually just too easy 💙💎
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
Finally got a chance to frame my @Polkadot Blockchain Academy graduation certificate! 🎓
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
I am worried about Rails. As someone with years of organizational experience, I am willing to help in the work of creating a separate independent foundation to secure its future.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Or you could just build it with Rails.
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Faruk Brbovic
3 years
Why most devs don't launch their apps: By the time you pick your Web App framework, Component Library, CSS library, theme, font, hosting, auth provider, media storage, CI/CD service... ... you are tired, forgot your idea, and have lost all motivation to build your app.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
The @newrelic and @getpostman devrel teams spent a bit of time this morning exploring the amazing city of Nairobi 🇰🇪
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Ben Greenberg
9 months
@FrumTikTok Any surprise that 'rabbinical schools' that don't know how to teach their 'rabbis' how to properly put on tefillin, and how to pronounce Hebrew correctly, also don't know how to teach their 'rabbis' about basic ideas of Jewish peoplehood? 🤮
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Ben Greenberg
8 months
Just some devrel folks planning for an incredible year at @fuel_network 🫶
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Ben Greenberg
7 years
🚨 NEW CURRENCY ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 I call it "GELT" and you "mine" for it by playing a game with a spinning top that I will call a "dreidel". This is going to be the next big thing... invest now! p.s. Happy #Chanukah 🕎✡️🕎✡️
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Excited to hear this talk at #PyConKE2022 on the future of development work in Africa 🌍
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Ben Greenberg
5 months
Excited to announce the @fuel_network Developer Champions Program! 👑 It's your chance to get recognized for dev achievements across the Fuel ecosystem and earn a unique status of 🌟 Pro, 🛡️ Veteran, 🚀 All-Star, or 🏆 Legend.
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Ben Greenberg
5 months
The new @fuel_network dev champions were everywhere at #ETHDenver2024 ! Have you joined yet? We got our first bounty out for champions only — 500 USDC per submission possible!
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Ben Greenberg
8 years
Sexual assault is NOT "locker room banter"... it's simply criminal. Words DO matter. #debate #Debates2016 #TrumpIsNoLaughingMatter
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Thank you Kenya for the warmest hospitality! Cheers to all your graciousness and looking forward to the next time! #PyConKE2022
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Ben Greenberg
6 months
We're hiring for another Developer Advocate to join our team at @fuel_network ! Who are you? 🧱 Prior Web3 experience 🧑‍💻 Experience with Rust and/or TypeScript 🎤 Love teaching others in talks and workshops Where are you? 🌐 Anywhere! (🌟 If you're in Europe, Africa or Asia
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Ben Greenberg
6 months
looking good... 👀
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Last week I was pretty aggressively recruited for a DevRel role while at a conference. (I am not looking for a new opportunity right now.) It all stopped as soon as they saw the kippa on my head. Takeaway lesson: Don't be like that. Diversity makes your company stronger.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
If your grocery store has replaced chewing gum with matza, it may be a sign #Passover2022 is around the corner
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
@dhh A dichotomy of "work" and "the rest of life" is deeply flawed. An inability to create a space where people can be themselves at a place they spend most of their waking lives is the ultimate power play, you just don't realize it.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
When looking for your next job, consider: people > tech Prioritize the people you want to work with, because you spend a lot of your life working, so do it with those who you respect & value. Of course, the tech should be interesting, too, but it always comes down to people.
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Ben Greenberg
3 months
DevRel and marketing are not oppositional, they are friends and need each other. Marketing brings a wealth of wisdom to crafting messaging and more. DevRel ensures that the messaging is always honest, never overselling features that don't exist or promising without delivering.
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Ben Greenberg
6 years
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
@EmmaBostian For me, at home my American identity comes off prominently and when I visit the States my years living abroad makes me stand out for not being fully American. Never truly fit in in either place.
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Ben Greenberg
6 years
@WhiteHouse 6 months is, by definition, not an anniversary.
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Ben Greenberg
4 months
Antisemitism is normalized again. There was a brief window when it wasn't, but it's back. I can tell you about the time not so long ago I was courted pretty actively for a DevRel job until they saw the kippah on my head. Or, the time, being Sabbath observant in a learning
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Some father and son soldering time courtesy of @toorcamp 🔥🧰
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Celebrating a new job for my wife and my birthday! 🎉
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Ben Greenberg
2 months
New work computer just arrived! 💻 Starting my next adventure this coming week. 🙌 Where? Stay tuned! 🗄️🔑👨‍💻
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Current status: Huddled with the family in my home office aka our apartment's safe room as missile sirens go off. 130+ rockets fired at the Tel Aviv area happening now.
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Ben Greenberg
10 months
This week wraps up my time at @paritytech working as a DevRel engineer and helping to lead the advocates for @Polkadot . It's been an extraordinary time, and I have met some of the most amazing community members from Argentina 🇦🇷 to Czechia 🇨🇿. You are all fantastic and your
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Ben Greenberg
5 months
What is a Rollup OS? And what does this mean for devs? It’s a fully-fledged operating system purpose-built for Ethereum rollups that solve for parallelization, state minimized execution, and interoperability. You can deploy a smart contract in less than 1 minute with
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Not going to be a quiet night. Safe room restocked with bottled water, etc. just in case.
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
I'm a developer, a Rubyist, a nerd, and I've been known to share pics of delicious food. A lot of you follow me for some or all those. I'm also a regular person in a challenging time, and I don't hide that. You're always welcome to mute or unfollow until better times. ✌️
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Ben Greenberg
4 months
Today! 💫 Join me for an online workshop where we'll be: ✨ Announcing a new bounty where you can get 500 USDC! ✨ Learning how to build a smart contract with @SwayLang ✨ Discovering tips and tricks for making the best coding workshops!
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Tomorrow marks my last day at @OrbitModel . It's been an adventure, and I'm grateful to have helped launch numerous initiatives as the first #DevRel at the company. Some highlights in the thread... 🥳 🧵
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Ben Greenberg
7 years
@johnsonr The times I've brought a child to something work related I've been greeted with rounds of amazement & congrats for being a "super dad". If we want the system to change we have to stop congratulating fathers for being fathers & stop penalizing mothers for being mothers.
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Seeing yet again the "real devs don't use {library}" threads. Let's be clear. There is nothing wrong with using a library that simplifies a part of the stack that is not your area of expertise or interest. There's also nothing wrong w/doing so for your interest area, too. 💯
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Ben Greenberg
9 months
Family and community dialogues this week: - Consider concealing our mezuzah on our doorpost? - Kids, wear a cap over your yarmulkes after school. - Friends kids leaving college early because their kids fear literally for their life. - Will there be extra security again at
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Good morning from another beautiful day in Berlin, where no matter how many times I see this word in German, I still can't help being reminded of its Yiddish meaning. 🤭😅
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Ben Greenberg
2 months
A technical feature != a product. Sharding. Better merkle tree designs. ZK proofs. Etc. Etc. Etc. These are all technical features, but these are not the products. A product has to answer a why for a user, not only a how. Web3 desperately needs more product people.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
This weekend's cold brew coffee, courtesy of @NdemoKelvin and the #PyConKE2022 organizers ☕👏
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Ben Greenberg
6 years
@elsenorrocket You do realize you're not sitting in a 19th century salon in Vienna? Israel is not a theoretical topic to ponder, but the home of more than half of the world's Jewish population. The only way this "route" ends is through mass violence. Is that what you're advocating?
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
Kicking off @PolkadotCzechia event! Thanks @De_luneClaire and @helloitsdamsky for all your work organizing this great event!
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
How many times do you rehearse a talk before giving it? I've been speaking professionally for over 15 years, and I still practice over and over again. You're never too experienced to rehearse a talk.
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
I believe that second career developers bring a tremendous amount to their places of work. It can be defined with one term: pivot skills. What is a pivot skill? 👇🧵
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Ben Greenberg
9 months
I'm giving a brand new talk of mine at @ThatConference in Texas 🤠 coming up and I couldn't be more excited! Have you registered for THAT yet? You haven't?? What are you waiting for? Go get your ticket!
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Giving this Twitter communities thing a spin, care to join a #Ruby community? 💎 👇
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
Today's the day! Come join me to talk about being an early career dev a bit later in life! The talk will also be livestreamed on the conference platform #RubyConf2021
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
Ran an interactive smart contracts online workshop for 70+ non-tech folks with @ink_lang & @substrate_io via @github Codespaces last week. 🎓💻 Would you be interested in a blog post detailing the setup, steps and experience? 🤔📝
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Ben Greenberg
6 years
I was at a tech meetup this morning and they had a panel of only all white men. One of the panelists was asked about it & he responded that it's hard to "find diversity." I responded "bullshit" louder than I realized. He gave me quite a stare. No regrets.
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Ben Greenberg
4 months
Hey Prague friends! 🇨🇿 I'm coming back for @EthPrague where I'll be presenting on building a dApp on @fuel_network taking advantage of @SwayLang and all the dev tooling to get done faster, be more productive, and dare I say, be happier while doing it?!? See you in May!
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Ben Greenberg
11 months
tl;dr the PBA curriculum is now open source... check the link for all the lesson plans, quizzes, assignments and more! The @Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) was one of the most intensive learning programs I've done in quite a long time. It takes students through a whirlwind
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Spending the night meeting and learning from the thriving local community of @Polkadot builders in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷👏👏
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
It's been a while, but we are very much into full conference mode again in devrel land, so it might be a good time to remember that while there are lots of enjoyable moments, it is also hard work. 16 hour days. Formal presentations. Booth work. Always being "on" all the time.
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
So far this year received a couple CFP acceptances and a couple CFP rejections. There will definitely be more rejections than acceptances. New tech speakers - don’t be discouraged by a conference rejection. You’ll get that acceptance eventually! 💪
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
This is an @AishaBlake appreciation tweet. You are a simply amazing partner to be working together with on all things @newrelic .
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Celebrating a pretty significant birthday of mine a few days early! 🥳 Thanks to my in-laws for giving us the night away without the kids! 🍷🍷
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Ben Greenberg
4 months
In case you are ever wondering, #DevRel is not a job title. It's a discipline. Now, there's a site for that. (My morning coffee time was time well spent today.) Built quickly with ❤️ using @bridgetownrb 💎
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
First time in a @newrelic office, hello San Francisco! 🌉🇺🇲
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Ben Greenberg
2 months
The path to benefiting everyone—users and devs—is clearer still outside Web3. I entered Web3 for its fascinating technical aspects and still find them intriguing. Now, I'm eager to return to a DevRel work, where connecting the work to helping devs build useful products is more
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
"hey, can I grab a shirt?" "Oh, you're a sponsor also? Sorry these are only for attendees" Friends, it's been a while since we've done conferences regularly, but don't be that person that I met today. Another sponsor is also a human, an engineer, and a potential customer. 💯
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
New Orleans beignets safely made it back home to Israel into the hands of some very happy kids
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Ben Greenberg
2 months
Web3 needs more product focus. The first smart contract was deployed nearly 10 years ago. Yet, companies are fixated on TPS and scalability. Without products needing scaling, this is over-engineering. It's like perfecting a portfolio site but neglecting the content.
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
PCR test at Cincinnati airport: $200 PCR test at Ben Gurion airport: ₪80 The pricing discrepancies across the globe for what has become a mandated preflight requirement is wild 💸
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Ben Greenberg
10 months
Okay, friends, this may be controversial, but I'm going to say it anyways... Being a great developer does not make you a great technical writer. Technical writing is a different discipline, and thinking you know the latter because you are good at the former is just wrong.
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
It was quite surreal having the last day of my notice period be the same day major layoffs are announced. If any of my former New Relic colleagues impacted by the layoffs are looking for work, please share here and hopefully the network can give you a boost.
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Ben Greenberg
5 months
DevRel legends, @dabit3 and @Yazanator , on stage with Eomji from @encodeclub 🔥
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Ben Greenberg
6 years
I got exciting news! 📢 I am thrilled to be joining the online educational team at the @FlatironSchool next week!! So excited to walk with students from around the world in their coding journeys and to be a part of the @WeWork community! 🙌🎊👨‍💻
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Ben Greenberg
9 months
There are people gaslighting Jews on this platform daily, hourly, by the minute. Telling us not to worry, or we worry too much, or it's our fault somehow. Well, someone I care about deeply was just a few minutes ago car rammed in South Florida for the "crime" of having a car
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Ben Greenberg
11 months
En route back to Miami after an overall inspiring and thoughtful #DevRelCon . Thank you to the organizers for your hard work and thank you for entrusting me to help in creating the first Web3 track at the event. Now, time to go home and enjoy Rosh Hashana 🍎🍯 with the family!
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
#DevRelCon 2022 was a fabulous experience, amazing job to @matthewrevell , Manuela and the entire team! I've published my slides for my talk "Measuring DevRel During a Downturn: Returning to the Fundamentals" and made them available online.
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Ben Greenberg
7 years
🗞️ PERSONAL NEWS 🗞️ Excited to share that I have accepted my first full time #developer position! A huge shoutout to @FlatironSchool for making it possible! And a huge shoutout to the hundreds of people I met in the past three months who helped along the journey! 🙌 🙏 🙌
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Ben Greenberg
5 years
Woah. I just wrote my first developer blog post in Hebrew. It's a translation of my "A Window Into Developer Relations" post. I'm sure I made some mistakes, but you can't grow, if you don't try, right? Is this the first Hebrew post on @ThePracticalDev ?
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Ben Greenberg
3 months
PoW (Proof of Wall)
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Ben Greenberg
5 months
I wish I took pictures but thank you @deUETH for a fantastic evening at Casa Bonita! Your team were incredible hosts and can’t wait for @EDCON2024 !
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Ben Greenberg
3 years
My wife put down in words more eloquently than I could what this week has been like for us, and for our kids, as we struggle to continue our work, school, and lives amidst the rockets.
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Ben Greenberg
6 months
Looking for a session at @ThatConference tomorrow morning after the incredible Shaundai Person gives her keynote? Join me in Campsite 4 at 10:30 exploring the architecture of blockchain!
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Two yeshiva classmates now tech superstars 😂
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Ben Greenberg
10 months
Do not attack Jews for being Jews. Do not attack Muslims for being Muslim. Do not share Antisemitic conspiracy theories. Do not share Islamophobic conspiracy theories. We are not each others enemies, and you non-directly involved westerners in the US and Europe, shouting
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Ben Greenberg
2 years
Learning a lot about internal developer advocacy from the folks at Adyen #DevRelCon
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Ben Greenberg
1 year
I went through all your suggestions for @github Stars 🌟 nominations, and wow, was that difficult! In the end, I'm happy to say I've put in my nomination for three people, each absolutely inspiring in their own unique way. @BekahHW @CodesChrissy @whitep4nth3r 👏👏👏
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